Alfonso Valencia
alfonsovalencia.bsky.social
Alfonso Valencia
@alfonsovalencia.bsky.social
Bioinformatics, Comp biol, cancer genomes, text mining, strucutral bioinfo. but also: Science publishing, science policy, genome & ethics, science & art
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💻Discover the #OpenSource #AI tools that are helping BSC advance precision oncology, combining #deeplearning with logic-based reasoning for scalable, explainable, and trustworthy AI!

🔘Join the Evenflow Project webinar.

🗓️ 25 Nov | 11:00
🎓 Live demos from ARC, NCSRD & ICL
🔗 bsc.es/44u
November 18, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Artículo relevante. Muchas enfermedades tienen síntomas distintos en hombres y mujeres.
Depresión, infarto son buenos ejemplos.
Ignorarlo perjudica a los pacientes.

(@bioinfo4women.bsky.social @bsc-cns.bsky.social trabaja en en sesgos de sexo en medicina)

www.lavanguardia.com/vida/2025111...
Ni 'histérica' ni anoréxica: la sentencia que alerta de sesgos en medicina por el ingreso a la fuerza de una mujer
La catalana Alexandra Hernández acabó ingresada en un centro de TCA por una bajada de peso sin ser anoréxica; una juez le ha dado la razón
www.lavanguardia.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Josep Samitier (@ibecbarcelona.eu)
presentando las conclusiones de los proyectos del los planes complementarios de biotecnología aplicada a la salud.
Un enorme esfuerzo de coordinación que una vez alcanzados con éxito sus objetivos espera su continuidad.
November 17, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Josep Samitier (@ibecbarcelona.eu)
presentando las conclusiones de los proyectos del los planes complementarios de biotecnología aplicada a la salud.
Un enorme esfuerzo de coordinación que una vez alcanzados con éxito sus objetivos espera su continuidad.
November 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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#BSCConnects, together with BSC spin-off Galtea and Garrigues, brought together over 40 #AI leaders to discuss how to make Responsible AI operational across different perspectives.

#IAResponsable #InnovaciónAbierta #DeepTech #InnovationBSC
#BSCConnects: Responsible AI operational across different perspectives.
YouTube video by BSC CNS
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November 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
A very special day for us. Our 20 years anniversary !!!
Our director Mateo Valero speaking.
@bsc-cns.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Yesterday, we lost a giant of twentieth century genetics, Antonio Garcia Bellido. His legacy will remain deeply rooted in the history of biology. Rest in peace.
November 11, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Entrevista de Artur Olesch a @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social en #DigitalHealth sobre el incierto futuro de la #IA. Muy recomendable
aboutdigitalhealth.com/2025/11/06/a...
AI’s uncertain future
“If this is the final stage of AI, we’re in trouble.” — Alfonso Valencia on the risks and promise of generative models. Continue Reading
aboutdigitalhealth.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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NEW from me:

Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.

That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀
October 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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How fair are the algorithms that decide who gets information online? Our new paper in PNAS Nexus shows that maximization algorithms, the ones used to pick “influencers” in social networks, unintentionally deepen inequality.

🧠 Sekara, Dotu, Cebrian, Moro & García-Herranz
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
Detecting bias in algorithms used to disseminate information in social networks and mitigating it using multiobjective optimization
Abstract. Social connections are conduits through which individuals communicate, information propagates, and diseases spread. Identifying individuals who a
doi.org
October 31, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Researchers find that discarded cigarette butts in parks are hotspots of antibiotic resistance genes and pathogens and may act as an overlooked source of health risks in a public setting. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/cycX50XkuZP
October 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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🔝Mateo Valero, is one of the 35 HPC Legends by #HPCWire

🌐 This list celebrates 35 luminaries who have made HPC what it is today.

www.hpcwire.com/35-hpc-legends/

#35Legends #HPCLegends
October 20, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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🔘Nueva edición del Máster de Bioinformática del BSC, @cniostopcancer.bsky.social, @saludisciii.bsky.social ciii.bsky.social y SEBiot

▶ Codirigido por Fatima Al-Shahrour y @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social, es el segundo en el mundo con la certificación de la @iscb.bsky.social

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October 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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🗣 @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social: 'El área ➕avanzada en desarrollo de aplicaciones de #IA es posiblemente la biología'

El ejemplo➕ obvio es el Premio Nobel de Química del año pasado, a los creadores de AlphaFold, que permite predecir la estructura tridimensional de las proteínas

🗞 www.bsc.es/444
Supercomputación para desarrollar fármacos y predecir enfermedades
El Supercomputing Center intenta resolver algunos de los grandes desafíos médicos. Su departamento de Ciencias de la Vida trabaja en cáncer, patologías raras, nuevos fármacos o análisis genómico
www.bsc.es
October 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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📄Ver publicación del primer estudio de comorbilidades en PNAS: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🔘Plataforma interactiva de red de conexiones entre enfermedades: disease-perception.bsc.es/rgenexcom/

@beatrizurda.bsky.social @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social

#DíaMundialCáncerMama #19Octubre
October 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Es el 2º en el mundo con la certificación de la @iscb.bsky.social. Codirigido por Fátima Al-Sharour @bioinformatics.cnio.es y @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social, enseña a aplicar #ia y #aprendizajeautomático a problemas concretos en investigación biomédica, diagnóstico clínico o terapias personalizadas.
October 13, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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After the coffee break, we had a round table about dealing with evolution of drug resistance & synergies among EvoMG fields. We had a panel representing the different related "areas": Isabel Veiga (Plasmodium), David Posada (Cancer), Jero Rodriguez (Bacteria), Ana Abecasis (Virus).
October 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Next was Alfonso Valencia ( @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social), from the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC), who introduced the computing infrastructure at BSC and his work on co-morbidities.
October 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Almost the entire staff of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, known as the “voice of the CDC,” has been laid off, former publication editor-in-chief Charlotte Kent told STAT Saturday.
www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...
Deep cuts made to CDC's flagship MMWR publication, a cornerstone of public health
CDC staff behind the agency’s flagship publication have been fired amid drastic cuts to the HHS promised by the White House due to the government shutdown, according to five people familiar with the s...
www.statnews.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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🌐Agile, safe, and sustainable access to European health data to accelerate biomedical research.

A study led by BSC reveals that the lack of alignment in criteria and organizational barriers pose a challenge to the development and implementation of the European Health Data Space (EHDS)
October 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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*Being a science fiction writer, I tend to look for the "oxymorons" instead of the "empty holes," but I'm extremely keen on approaches like this

*I'm not sure it matters much if AIs explore the "previously unthinkable" in the "holes," but at least that's not "baked-in," so it's easy to notice
October 4, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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✴️Buscan aumentar la bioseguridad ante el riesgo de fabricar proteínas peligrosas con IA

🗨️ @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social: "Lo que viene a la mente es una variante más infecciosa del coronavirus. Hace un año David Baker y George Church advirtieron de los peligros"
sciencemediacentre.es/buscan-aumen...
October 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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🚀Premios #BSCConnects – Tech for Impact Awards en la Barcelona Deep Tech Summit!

⏰ Inscripciones abiertas hasta el 23 de octubre
🌐Ya podéis consultar los retos: bsc.es/bscconnectsa...

#IA #supercomputación #InnovationBSC
September 30, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Article de @blancagispert.bsky.social sobre el Barcelona Supercomputing Center, un dels grans èxits de l'ecosistema d'innovació que està en fase de creixement i reforçant la tan necessària transferència de coneixement. Felicitats @marionasanz.bsky.social & team
November 17, 2024 at 10:36 AM